But ebooks are exempt from it. (Ebooks obviously didn't exist in 1537 but they've now been around for decades.)
So unless AI is used to make books published via traditional publishers (which is of course possible, but somewhat unlikely), the situation doesn't change much as regards to archiving books (in France).
Many people argue this is bad and should be changed. But it's debatable.
What scares me is that some mixed works (PDF/on-demand prints) are not archived because the authors think the system is too clunky to deal with, which is really a shame for books like https://laurent.claessens-donadello.eu/pdf/lefrido.pdf, for example.
Now ebooks and on-demand printing allow you to "publish" books without going through the quality filter of a publisher. But you won't get into a book store that way, and anybody talking about the trouble of archiving those better already have an archive of the low hanging fruit of the same category: fanfiction.org and friends (and I don't mean this derogatory, there are great stories in there)
Surely, there are multiple sci-fi stories exploring this exact premise. I would love some recommendations in my replies.
A few put them up on third-party bookseller sites for a time, and I've been able to get a lot of rare and notable works for comparatively little money. Actually, a lot of them come from university libraries, so maybe they're not as much of an exception as I think.
When slop floods the library faster than it can expand, who will want to maintain that. I don't think we have good enough sorting and rating (or good enough AI output detection) to prevent bookspam.
This is a point in history where "record everything" stops being viable, and we have to start hand-picking the text we want to survive. Indiscriminate things like Internet Archives stop being viable.
Why keep books, anyways? You can just ask the AI to re-generate whatever it is you want to read about on the fly.